Bookworm Beat 2/19/18 — thinking about the Second Amendment

It’s all here: Making Proggies admit they want to repeal the Second Amendment, revealing their simplistic thinking, and questioning transgender treatment.

Facing the silly Proggies on Facebook. I always avoid my real-me Facebook page in the days after a much-publicized shooting (the media is drawn to shootings involving white kids in the suburbs as opposed to black kids in the ghettos), because I simply can’t stand the hate, ignorance, and hysteria. Occasionally, though, I try to introduce a little rationality into their discussions.

For example, when my Proggie friends simultaneously demand gun control while pointing to a story about how some enterprising reporter bought a gun illegally, I ask them if they have a better idea than gun control. It’s at that point that they say the Second Amendment isn’t an individual right, something I shut down by pointing to the Heller decision. That usually ends with nasty remarks about Justice Scalia.

A lot of my gun-control Proggies post memes about the wonders of restricted gun ownership in other countries, with those posts always ending with some line about gun ownership being a privilege, not a right. If I still feel like engaging, I’ll remind them that, in the U.S., the Second Amendment means that gun ownership is a right, not a privilege. They hate that point.

And so, inevitably, we get to where my Proggie friends really want to go: Full repeal of the Second Amendment, followed by confiscating all guns in private hands.

If I still have patience, and depending on how friendly I’m feeling, once they honestly admit their goal, I’ll point out a few things: (a) Considering how they hate Trump, do they really want Trump to have all the guns? (b) Considering how they think police are racist killers, do they really want police to have all the guns? (c) And if they’re really hardcore Lefties, as opposed to useful idiot Proggies, considering how they think soldiers are baby killers, do they really want soldiers to have all the guns?

To one man, a Jewish man, I said that, since he was obviously not evil, I was surprised that he wanted to reduce Jews to the same position they were in when they faced genocidal Nazis, all armed with guns, between 1933-1945. He responded by snarking at me that he thanked God he wasn’t a Canadian blindly loyal to the Second Amendment. I told him that I thanked God too that he was a Canadian and wouldn’t be voting in any American elections. Canadians, I said, are to sheep-like, remaining convinced, all evidence to the contrary, that government is always good and will always protect them.

I don’t persuade anybody, but I do hope I cause people to think, at least a little bit. Thinking, as opposed to mindlessly repeating, can be the first stop on the road to abandoning bad or stupid ideas. At the very least, I want Proggies to be honest about the fact that they don’t believe in gun control and don’t really want it. They want to do away with guns entirely by repealing the Second Amendment without doing the hard work of actually repealing it. As Charles C.W. Cooke essentially said, bring it on.

A further thought about super valuable children.My post yesterday posited that we live in a unique historical time that sees middle-class white children as more than usually precious to their parents. No matter how loving parents were in the past, that was always tempered by a fatalism that said that some children will die (not may die) before their parents. It’s no coincidence that, for hundreds of years, American children said as their bedtime prayer, “Now I lay me down to sleep; I pray the Lord my soul to keep; and if I die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take.” That is not an optimist’s prayer.

My brother-in-law pointed out, though, that the killers may not be thinking about hurting the parents. They just want to hurt the other children. There’s a sort of fierce emotional socialism behind that thinking that also relates to hyper-precious American children.

These maladjusted killers, who either come from unloving homes or are too emotionally damaged to feel loved, want their peers to suffer as they do. “I’m not loved and I’m not going to let you be loved.” It is, as Churchill said of socialism, the equal sharing of misery. In past times, when there was more emotional distance between parents and children (even loving parents and loved children), the chasm between damaged children and their peers might not have been so large and obvious to those damaged children.

Sometimes posters sum it all up; and sometimes they’re just stupid. Here is a pro-Second Amendment poster that sums it all up:

And sometimes posters are really dumb, insofar as they fail to distinguish between categories except in the basest, most racist way:

We can of course divide things by race (or, in the case of Muslims, by faux-racial label because Proggies are too simplistic to understand the difference between ideology and race) or, if we’re not a useful idiot Proggie, we can dig a little deeper.

Was the Muslim mass murderer someone who killed his entire family when his wife demanded a divorce or did he shoot up a military base or gay dance club while screaming “Allahu Akbar”? And if the latter, was he raised in a country that actively supports radical Islam or was he tied to foreign radical Islamists? If he was an Allahu Akbar murderer drawing ideological support from a foreign country, by all means let’s sever access as much as possible between that country and ours. So yes, TRAVEL BANS to keep more radical Islamists from pouring into our country.

Was the Hispanic murderer in this country legally or illegally? If the latter, the mass murder would never have happened but for America’s failure to enforce its immigration laws. Some of that failure comes about because, for eight years, we had an administration that refused to abide by its own laws. However, part of that failure is because we have a difficult border to manage. More than a decade ago, both parties in Congress agreed that we could manage that border — and perhaps prevent unnecessary American deaths by keeping out people who would never have been allowed in legally — by building a wall. So yes, BUILD A WALL to stop illegal murders (most of whom are Hispanic and not Dutch).

Did the Black murderer come from a Democrat-run ghetto that encourages disrespect for life by actively promoting abortions in black communities? Did the Black murderer come from a Democrat-run ghetto that denies law-abiding citizens the right to armed self-defense, making them sitting ducks for predators who don’t care about gun laws? Did the Black murderer come from a Democrat-run ghetto that marginalizes fathers by making welfare a better deal for women than entering into a stable committed relationship with her children’s father? Did the Black murderer come from a Democrat-run ghetto that dismisses the virtues of education, work, marriage, and children (in that order), because telling blacks about these things is racist and a form of cultural colonialism?

If you answered yes to any of these questions, each of which sees Democrats foreclosing policies that would help make Black communities safer, while then yes, MORE COPS AND PRISONS is the only remaining alternative. That is, if you aggressively deny people the opportunity to be their best selves, you are going to have to police and imprison their worst selves.

So that’s a really, really stupid poster based upon the racist and uninformed assumptions that underlie it.

Why are transgenders accommodated instead of treated? Those whom we call “transgenders” are people who have a form of body dysmorphia that sees their brains believing that the attached body is the wrong sex. Thus, a boy will feel that his body ought to be a girl body and a girl will feel that her body ought to be a boy body. It seems to me that the most simple way to treat this dysmorphia in the first instance is to give the boy male hormones and the girl female hormones. Theoretically, the correct hormones should feminize the girl’s brain to accept her girl’s body and masculinize the boy’s brain to accept his boy’s body.

Except that’s not what our medical establishment does or our cultural establishment demands. Instead, in the first instance, we give the boy hormones for women that atrophy his male sex organizes, make him sterile, make him grow breasts, and put him at risk of cancer. To top it off, we cut off his penis and testicles and give him breast implants, the latter of which women often complain create their own serious problems.

Likewise, in the first instance, we give the girls hormones for men that render her permanently sterile and that increase her risk of cancer. To top it off, we cut off her breasts and surgically affix some weird faux-penis to her body.

Unless someone can tell me that giving body dysmorphics increased hormones tied to their actual biological gender has been tried and invariably failed, I am at a loss to understand why we don’t approach this type of dysmorphia by using hormonal realignment instead of dangerous, destructive gender reassignment.

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“It seems to me that the most simple way to treat this dysmorphia in the first instance is to give the boy male hormones and the girl female hormones. Theoretically, the correct hormones should feminize the girl’s brain to accept her girl’s body and masculinize the boy’s brain to accept his boy’s body”

An interesting thought. Assuming this would actually work, from a medical perspective, I suspect that most of the people with dysmorphia would reject the idea, because their subjective perception of *who they really are* is based more on their brain than on their body; hence, a project to change their brain in this way would threaten their core identity.

Wolf Howling

Just to add, the latest push from the proggies is using to children to actually be the spokesman for disarming private citizens. I find that disturbing on a visceral level. On one hand, I am disturbed at turning children into little marionettes, dancing on the end of the string with mouths open while the words of progressive adults pour forth. Two, I am disgusted at progs reducing a policy discussion of the magnitude of the Second Amendment to one of trying to manipulate the discussion by putting children out to argue their points.

I mention the above because, on at least one level, it relates to your body dysmorphia argument. Many of the cases of body dysmorphia in children and young teens today are driven by proggie parents and proggie adults who want to prove that gender is a social construct. It is another abuse of children, just as is making children into pawns against the second amendment. What ties them together is the willingness of proggies to abuse children to achieve their own ideological ends.

ymarsakar

It has always been for the children.

SCOTTtheBADGER

I bought your book, when it first came out. It is Badger Approved!

lyn5

#MeToo

Bob Jones

“To one man, a Jewish man, I said that, since he was obviously not evil, I
was surprised that he wanted to reduce Jews to the same position they
were in when they faced genocidal Nazis, all armed with guns, between
1933-1945”. Unfortunately, a review of Jewish history, they have been persecuted because they have typically thought that forming a pact with the Devil will guarantee that the Devil does not eat them. That has never worked out. This never ceases to amaze me.

ymarsakar

Some of them work with the Nazis to get rich, as Soros did. Others work with the Jesuits, so that they can adopt a noble name like Red Shield or Rothschild.

As mentioned here before, this is merely rebellion against Moses with the golden calf and idol worship. It’s not the first time in the history of Israel nor will it be the last.

Of course, the USA need not feel superior, given Operation Paperclip and the relationship with Japan’s biowarfare team.

ymarsakar

Did anyone know that the 7 conspirators, plus Wilkes Booth, that killed the Protestant king Abraham Lincoln, were all/mostly Roman Catholics?

Did anyone know that the Vatican was the only State power to recognize the Confederacy? It’s apparently a hot topic debate point on civilwar dot com, but the additional circumstances were not revealed to me until now.

On the morning of Monday the 17th, Rev. Conwell hurried to St. Paul and reported to the newspaper that in St. Joseph he had been informed of President Lincoln’s assassination three hours before the event took place. The paper published his report. “We have now before us,” wrote Commissioner Harris, positive evidence that these Jesuit Fathers, priests of Rome, engaged in preparing young men for the priesthood away out in the village of St. Joseph, in far off Minnesota, were in correspon- dence with their brethren in Washington City, and had been informed that the plan to assassinate the President had been matured, the agents for its accomplishment had been found, the time for its execution had been set, and so sure were they of its accomplishment, that they could announce it as already done, three or four hours before it had been consummated. The antic- ipation of its accomplishment so elated them that they could not refrain from passing it around … as a piece of glorious news. -Rulers of Evil

“Here is Caesar, and all the line of Julius, all who shall one day pass under the dome of the great sky. This is the man, this one, of whom so often you have heard the promise, Caesar Augustus, son of the deified, who shall bring once again an Age of Gold to Latium, the land where Saturn reigned in early times. He will extend his power beyond the Garamants [Africans] and Indians, over far territories north and south of the zodiacal stars, the solar way….”

First time I was ever able to find a source explaining what the novus ordo seclorum came from. It’s on the US Dollar btw, go look in your wallet, middle class Americans. The Great Seal was merely the antecedent not the source. What was the inspiration for the Great Seal was the fundamental issue.

Did anyone know that Pontifex Maximus is a title given to the P of Rome, which was once held by the god king of the Babylonians as well as by the Roman Caesars?

While a young Protestant student at the Roman Catholic monastery of St. Thomas College in Bardstown, Davis had pled to be received into the Catholic faith, but was “not permitted to convert 240 CHAPTER 22 THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION vert.” He remained “a hazy Protestant” until his confirmation into the Episcopal Church at the age of fifty.

Despite outward appear- ances of rejection, the Confederate President maintained a vibrant communion with Rome. No one was more aware of this than Abraham Lincoln. At an interview in the White House during August 1861, Lincoln confided the following to a former law client of his, a Roman Catholic priest named Charles Chiniquy, who published the President’s words in his own autobiography, Fifty Years In The Church of Rome: “I feel more and more every day,” [stated the President] “that it is not against the Americans of the South, alone, I am fight- ing. It is more against the Pope of Rome, his Jesuits and their slaves. Very few Southern leaders are not under the influence of the Jesuits, through their wives, family relations, and their friends. “Several members of the family of Jeff Davis belong to the Church of Rome. Even the Protestant ministers are under the influence of the Jesuits without suspecting it. To keep her as- cendency in the North, as she does in the South, Rome is doing here what she has done in Mexico, and in all the South Ameri- can Republics; she is paralyzing, by civil war, the arms of the sol- diers of liberty. She divides our nation in order to weaken, subdue and rule it…. “Neither Jeff Davis not any one of the Confederacy would have dared to attack the North had they not relied on the prom- ises of the Jesuits that, under the mask of democracy, the money and the aims of the Roman Catholics, even the arms of France, were at their disposal if they would attack us. I pity the priests, the bishops, and monks of Rome in the United States when the people realize that they are in great part responsible for the tears and the blood shed in this war. I conceal what I know, for if the people knew the whole truth, this war would turn into a religious war, and at once, take a tenfold more savage and bloody character….

Now I wonder why the American public education system has not once informed me of this… but I would be repeating myself.

The secret arts of the secret combination and DS (Deep State) goes back farther than Americans wish to imagine.

The Confederacy’s pro slavery was well connected to the Southern Baptists, but the Catholic/Episcopalian angle I had not yet seen the dots there. This was religious totalitarianism more than state politics. As for Mexico, Sherman once remarked that if the Union were to lose, the US would turn into Mexico.

The Catholic question in the US is so important that the abortion First organization utilized a “Catholic” strategy to turn the opinion of the US for abortion or pro choice. We would likely never have heard about this if not for an insider in the abortion industry that defected to pro life.

rick9911

“You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle
behind every blade of grass.” is a quote by Isoroku Yamamoto,
Commander-in-Chief of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II. Of
course it was originally stated in Japanese, this is the English
translation.
Historians cannot be sure that Yamamoto said this but it does show that the USA population has always had many guns.

The people today
demanding gun control have a political agenda not a solution to school
violence. Firearms & the type of firearms are not the problem. So
what is the problem? The answer to that question will lead to the
solution.

Have you heard why the shooter wasn’t allowed to wear a backpack to school when he was still attending? BECAUSE HE WAS CAUGHT BRINGING BULLETS TO SCHOOL! Did you know that? Do you know why he wasn’t arrested for bringing live ammunition to school? Because the school district was upset about how many minorities were being charged with crimes so, in their Progressive wisdom, they just stopped having kids arrested for that sort of thing! It’s called the “Broward County Solution.”

Think about it – If the school had called the police and had him arrested maybe he wouldn’t have been able to legally buy the gun! Not that it would have stopped him getting one but they themselves are the ones harping on background checks and restricting people’s ability to buy guns. “It ought to be illegal!” But Progressives won’t even follow the laws we have on the books now if it makes them feel bad!

Here’s the awful truth: Even if every Progressive solution were instituted today they would all immediately be rendered useless by Progressives’ slavish devotion to Political Correctness! (Oh, no! Too many minorities are being arrested! We must put a stop to it so we don’t look racist!)

PaidinRubles

We’ve seen that in several of the successful terrorist attacks so far in the US. The FBI was given information and then failed to act on it.

And yet, we are supposed to believe that it’s like ’24’ and they are out there all the time foiling plots and nabbing terrorists.

Ray Kremer

It’s an excellent point about the hormones. The lesson being that lefties think a person’s perception is always right, and if perception disagrees with reality, it’s reality that’s wrong. The problem with this is that in mental illness, perception is very often quite demonstrably wrong. (Watch the TV shows “Perception” and “Black Box” for lots of examples.)

But WHY is this attitude held and maintained? It has to do with the likely undeserved connection made between homosexuality and transsexuality, and conflating them together into an ever-growing alphabet soup acronym. Gay people allegedly don’t want to be or shouldn’t be “cured” of their sexual desires that are the opposite of the majority of the population. Therefore the same must be extended to all forms of gender confusion such as transsexuals, or else it could be seen as invalidating this notion for the gays.

To be sure, homosexuals certainly experience a lot of the same confusion, uncertainty, and emotional turmoil as transsexuals. However, having sexual contact with people of the same gender as you does not involve mutilating your body through hormones and surgeries. Recent news stories tell of post-surgery transsexuals who change their minds and want to go back to the gender they were born with, not to mention all the children that are allowed to do these things during crucial developmental years. A gay person can change their minds and go bisexual or even heterosexual, and also back again, with no visits to the doctor.

There are all types of body dysphorias, including the so-called “transabled” people who ruin perfectly functional body parts in order to become blind, an amputee, etc. Gender dysphoria is really no different than these, it’s just a variation on the theme of which body part is the scapegoat for making the person feel ill at ease in their own skin. The fact that suicide rates for transsexuals with and without gender reassignment surgery are identical demonstrates that these unfortunate people’s bodies have nothing to do with their anguish. Plenty of people suffer from chronic depression, their own brains unable to experience happiness or contentment the way the rest of us do. I am quite certain that dysphoric people are simply another form of this, but with the additional delusion that their unhappiness stems from their body rather than their brain, and can be fixed by changing their body rather than changing their brain chemistry.

As Rush Limbaugh has pointed out, at the point where the Supreme Court forced homosexual marriage onto the country, the gay movement pretty much had the last of their demands settled. For those leftist warriors who prefer the fight itself over victory, shifting their cause to transsexuals was the logical next step, starting with bathrooms and continuing on to the rest of it. Just as homosexuality was and is portrayed as more common than it really is, along with efforts to make it hip, cool, and even superior to the bigotry inherent to being heterosexual, now transsexuality is elevated to this as well. There is no greater virtue than being a member of an allegedly oppressed minority, and they have invented nonsense terms like “gender fluid” that probably represent more virtue signalling than they do actual gender confusion.

My niece used to think she was a cat crawling around the house, drinking from her bowl and sleeping on top of her bed. My sister did not put a litter box in the bathroom. If perception is always correct, we should correctly surmise the railroad tracks meet in the horizon.

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